TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY AND G. Y. ZINOVIEV[1]

Written:Written on October 24, 1919Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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Trotsky,ZinovievPetrograd

TheCommander-in-Chief wires rejection of the request
for dispatch of a brigade over and above the railwayregiment and 2 regiments of the 6th Army, of which one is
already en route. I think this is correct, because there
is nowhere to take them from, and extremely fierce fighting
is still in progress in the south near Orel. For the time
being, reinforcements of 1,500 will be sent to you.
Measures have been taken to send Letts in addition, if they
can be found. It is proposed to give you 600 men from the
Soviet
School.[2]

[1]Transmittedby direct line.—Ed.

[2]Bya decision of the Central Committee of the Party, more than
half the graduating class of Communist students of the Sverdlov
University were sent to the front. On October 24, 1919, Lenin
delivered a speech to the students of the University who were
leaving for the front (see present edition, Vol. 30, pp. 76–84)